Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
The White Partridge
Maker(s)
Factory:
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Soft-paste porcelain, lead-glazed and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, red, red-brown, purple, and black enamels. The partridge stands on both feet astride the stump, in profile to right with its head turned to its right. The larger tree trunk has three multiple stems bearing flowers, extending upwards under the bird's breast, and there is a spray of ivy on the ground. The bird is painted in red-brown and purple, with red combs and a red-lined black beak; the tree at the front is yellow with red and blue dotted flowers; the leaves on the base are bluish-green.
Notes
History note: Dr H. Bellamy Gardner; sold Sotheby's, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, lot 96; given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R. S. Cochrane Fund
Legal notes
Given by the National Art Collections Fund as trustee of the R. S. Cochrane Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 14.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1941)
by
National Art Collections Fund
Dating
Raised anchor period (1749-1752)
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1752
CE
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1753
CE
Note
The model was adapted from pl. 72, the White Partridge in George Edwards, The Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II, 1743.
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, bluish-green, yellow, red, red-brown, purple, and black)
Partridge
Materials used in production
glassy type
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
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Chelsea Porcelain, the Triangle and Raised Anchor Wares
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
page(s): 47
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A Natural History of Uncommon Birds: and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupeds, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c., exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates, from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life, with a full and accurate description of each figure, to which is added A brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aqua fortis; likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds; and additions to many subjects described in this work
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William Duesbury's London Account Book 1751-1753
page(s): 13, 14, 31
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Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795
page(s): 90
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The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery
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English Porcelain of the 18th Century
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Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection
page(s): 32-3
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Nature, Porcelain and Enlightenment: George Edwards and the Chelsea Porcelain Birds
page(s): 31-66
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: EC.21-1941
Primary reference Number: 80509
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
